AI Governance Briefing — May 13, 2024
OpenAI introduced GPT-4o with native multimodal streaming and improved latency, requiring enterprises to revisit access controls, data retention, and safety reviews.
Executive briefing: OpenAI’s GPT-4o launch delivers audio, vision, and text in a single model with response latency under 250ms. Zeph Tech urges AI program leads to update usage policies, logging, and red-teaming now that richer customer interactions are possible.
Key industry signals
- Real-time modalities. GPT-4o handles live voice and video, pushing organizations to govern streaming capture, consent, and retention.
- Lower pricing. API pricing dropped relative to GPT-4 Turbo, incentivizing experimentation that must still respect governance.
- Safety system. OpenAI released a new Safety API and updated usage policies, emphasizing misuse detection and watermarking.
Control alignment
- ISO/IEC 42001 8.4. Update AI system risk registers with GPT-4o streaming use cases, documenting safeguards and approvals.
- SOC 2 CC7.2. Expand monitoring to cover audio/video inputs, ensuring tokens and metadata are logged for audit trails.
Detection and response priorities
- Alert on access scope expansions or high-volume audio/video sessions that exceed approved thresholds.
- Test the Safety API integration to confirm abusive prompts trigger the correct responses and escalation paths.
Enablement moves
- Publish customer-facing guidance explaining how recorded sessions are stored, reviewed, and deleted.
- Run adversarial prompt tests covering voice cloning, sensitive data exposure, and unauthorized surveillance scenarios.
Zeph Tech analysis
- System card sets compliance baselines. OpenAI’s GPT-4o system card maps evaluations across CBRN, autonomous replication, election integrity, and self-harm domains; internal risk reviews should mirror those categories and the referenced red-team partners.
- Realtime API expands the attack surface. The new Responses and Realtime APIs rely on ephemeral session tokens and WebRTC channels, so security teams must log token issuance, client fingerprints, and media stream consent.
- Data handling commitments tightened. OpenAI reiterated that API and enterprise traffic is excluded from model training by default and retained for 30 days for abuse detection, with zero-retention options available through the enterprise privacy addendum.
Zeph Tech provides GPT-4o deployment kits covering policy updates, monitoring templates, and adversarial testing scripts.